Short Stories

Cli-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, Bruce Meyer et al.

With the world facing the greatest global crisis of all time – climate change – personal and political indifference has wrought a series of unfolding complications that are altering our planet, and threatening our very existence. Reacting to the warnings sounded by scientists and thinkers, writers are responding imaginatively to […]

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Wild Things, Jaimee Wriston Colbert

Brace yourself for Jaimee Wriston Colbert’s Wild Things. These linked rural noir stories unfold their wings near the Susquehanna River in a landscape graced by wildlife and haunted by lost property, “business after business failing, padlocking their doors, factories with their boarded up windows, just another has-been town slowly shutting […]

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Half Wild Stories, Robin MacArthur

MacArthur’s Half Wild shows that humans abuse and domineer nature — and women — at their own peril. Though few of MacArthur’s tales are told from the male perspective, those that do make short shrift of nature writing’s traditionally sexist rhetoric. -Pacific Standard Magazine, September 22, 2016, “From Muir to Matriarchs: The New, Female-Penned […]

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Survival Skills, Jean Ryan

The characters who inhabit Jean Ryan’s graceful, imaginative collection of stories are survivors of accidents and acts of nature, of injuries both physical and emotional. Ryan writes of beauty and aging, of love won and lost—with characters enveloped in the mysteries of the natural world and the animal kingdom. Goodreads […]

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Among Animals 2, JoeAnn Hart

Coming September 15, 2016: Ashland Creek Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of its second anthology of short fiction, Among Animals 2: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction. The relationships among human and non-human animals have captivated writers since the beginning of time—and the […]

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Hot Mess: Speculative Fiction about Climate Change, Rachel Lynn Brody, et al.

A thought-provoking collaborative anthology on the theme of climate change, featuring short stories from RJ Astruc, Rachel Lynn Brody, Miranda Doerfler, Sare Liz Gordy and Eric Sipple, with illustrations by Hannah Werdmuller and cover design by Sarah Hartley. Authors: Rachel Lynn Brody (Editor/Author), R.J. Astruc, Miranda Doerfler, Sare Liz Gordy, […]

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